Name: QED vacuum birefringence workshop
Start: 2015-11-01T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2015-11-03T22:45:00+01:00
Location: DESY Hamburg

QED vacuum birefringence workshop

from Sunday, November 1, 2015 (7:00 PM) to Tuesday, November 3, 2015 (10:45 PM)

Monday, October 26, 2015
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Thursday, October 29, 2015
Friday, October 30, 2015
Saturday, October 31, 2015
Sunday, November 1, 2015

7:00 PM Welcome Drinks
Welcome Drinks
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Room: DESY Lecture Hall, building 5

Monday, November 2, 2015
9:30 AM Welcome and logistical information - Babette Döbrich (CERN) Jan Pold (DESY)
Welcome and logistical information
- Babette Döbrich (CERN)
- Jan Pold (DESY)
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: Seminar room 4, Building 1b
10:15 AM
10:15 AM - 1:15 PM
Room: Seminar room 4, Building 1b
Contributions

10:15 AM Back View of the Fermilab 877 experiment for a VMB measurement - Siu Au Lee (Colorado Stae University)

11:15 AM Results from BMV - Remy Battesti (Universite Paul Sabatier)

12:15 PM Results from PVLAS - Frederico Della Valle (Dipartimento di Fisica - Università di Trieste)
1:15 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:15 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: Seminar room 4, Building 1b
2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Seminar room 4, Building 1b
Contributions

2:30 PM VMB plans at OSQAR - Stepan Kunc (Technical university of Liberec)

3:15 PM VMB at Gravitational Wave Detectors - Hartmut Grote (AEI Hannover and LIGO Lab)

4:00 PM Light-by-light scattering via photon-photon fusion at the LHC - David D'Enterria (CERN)

4:45 PM Feasibility study of detecting vacuum birefringence with X-ray free electron lasers and high-power optical lasers - Hans-Peter Schlenvoigt (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

5:15 PM High power laser induced vacuum birefringence probed by high purity X-ray polarimetry - Ingo Uschmann (Institut fuer Optik und Quantenelektronik, Universitaet Jena) Kai Schulze (Friedrich Schiller Universitaet Jena)

5:45 PM Quantum Reflection in VMB - Felix Karbstein (Universitaet Jena und Helmholtz Institut Jena)
7:00 PM Public Talk - Holger Gies (University of Jena)
Public Talk
- Holger Gies (University of Jena)
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: lecture hall
8:00 PM

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Room: DESY canteen
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 12:45 PM
Room: Seminar room 4, Building 1b
Contributions

9:00 AM Dominating noise sources at PVLAS - Guido Zavattini (University of Ferrara and INFN)

9:45 AM Dipole magnet considerations for VMB - Dieter Trines (DESY)

10:30 AM Optical coatings: A short process overview - Christoph Goedecker (LaserOptik)

11:15 AM Considerations for Integrating QED optics in the ALPS II setup - Axel Lindner Jan Pold (DESY)
12:45 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:45 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Seminar room 4, Building 1b

2:00 PM Round Table and short talks
Round Table and short talks
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Seminar room 4, Building 1b

5:00 PM ALPS-II visits
ALPS-II visits
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Seminar room 4, Building 1b possibility to visit the ALPS-II lab and the HERA tunnel